[b]Research Experience:[/b] (At your school or elsewhere? What field? How much time? Any publications or conference talks etc...)[b]Awards/Honors/Recognitions:[/b] (Within your school or outside?)[b]Pertinent Activities or Jobs:[/b] (Such as tutor, TA, etc...)[b]Any Miscellaneous Points that Might Help:[/b] (Such as connections, grad classes, famous recommenders, female or minority status etc...)[b]Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter:[/b]

Program Applying: Mostly pure and leaning heavily towards algebra/number theory, though some of the schools I have looked at have interesting looking applied projects ongoing as well. All for PhDs.

Research Experience: I have done two REUs (one in machine learning and one in numerical analysis), and I have been doing research with a professor at my school for a few years. .

Awards/Honors/Recognitions: I am a graduate assistant for my program (they only have 5 out of the roughly 40 students), and I received the departmental graduate award for algebra. Also, the poster I presented from the second REU received a presentation award.

Pertinent Activities or Jobs: I have been tutoring for 3 years, and I am currently grading for a swing-class (cross-listed as a graduate and undergraduate).

Any Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: I am in the CSTEP/McNair program. This likely will not help directly with admittance, but some schools accept application waivers from students in these programs, so I can apply to more schools than I otherwise could.

Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter:

Applying to Where:

Reach Brandeis University - Applied University of Iowa - Accepted 2/17/16 with TA University of Notre Dame - Accepted 2/03/16, fellowship first year and TA after

Manageable University of Nebraska-Lincoln - Accepted 2/19/16 with TA University of Oklahoma - Withdrawn University of Rochester - Applied

Research Experience: Physics research at home university including computational fluid dynamics and experimental and computational nuclear and particle physics. Summer internship at Jefferson Lab. Physics REU program at Cornell University focusing on optimization in accelerator physics.Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Society of Scholars (top 2% of university), various departmental scholarshipsPertinent Activities or Jobs: Physics tutor, math teaching assistant (grading and proctoring)Any Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: Letter of recommendation from a Cornell professor, graduate courses in integral equations and analysisAny Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter:

GRE Revised General Test:Q: 165 (90%)V: 160 (85%)W: 5.0 (93%)GRE Subject Test in Mathematics:M: 710 (63%) (Must have been a lot of smarticle particles that took the test this year. Seems silly to waste more money to retake. There are more important things to worry about--like personal statements.)

Program Applying: Applied Mathematics/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Research Experience: 1 summer REU at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (culminating in a talk, poster, and preprint), 1 summer at a NOAA laboratory (culminating in a talk and preprint), and 2 semesters as a graduate research assistant (presenting at two conferences this winter and submitting a paper for publication this spring).Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Numerous departmental and college scholarships, research assistantship, NOAA Hollings scholarship, AMS scholarship, and Goldwater honorable mention.Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Math tutor for five semesters (did everything from online, face-to-face, and large lecture tutoring up through Diff. Eq.) and T.A. for atmospheric dynamics course.Any Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: I know some of the professors at UW. One of my former teachers also has a few connections at Courant and Brown. My primary recommender holds a degree from Princeton and is well known in the oceanographic community. I'm hoping that completion of two Bachelor's and a Master's in 4 years has some merit to it.

Research Experience: NoneAwards/Honors/Recognitions: 3 time competitor at International Mathematical Olympiad, 2 time Honorable mention recipient. Placed highly and won multiple national high school math competitions. Pertinent Activities or Jobs: NoneAny Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: Will graduate with 40% of my credits from graduate level courses.Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: None.

Applying to Where:Far ReachUCLA Yale University

ReachUniversity of MichiganUniversity of Wisconsin

RealisticDukeUniversity of MinnesotaGeorgia TechRice

SafetyUniversity of Washington

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Research Experience: None except an upcoming M.S.-level thesis in the area of scientific computing/applied math.Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Magna Cum Laude, Pi Mu Epsilon National Mathematics Honor SocietyPertinent Activities or Jobs: Recitation Leader at grad institutionAny Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: Lots of grad classes from my M.S. degree, obviously. Also, grad institution is the #1 ranked school for Applied Math, I hope this counts for something! Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: Just as a note, in undergrad I did well but wasn't considering a career in math research, so didn't take grad classes then or do Putnam and chose internships over REUs. I worked for 2 years in between my B.A. and M.S., but now am very serious about math as my career.

Research Experience: 3 REU's, two in the US and one in Australia. Also, three projects at my school. One poster presentation, two conference talks, one paper published as first author and a second one submitted (won't make it in time for applications though).Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Naughton fellowship.Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Graded papers one semester.Any Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: Hispanic female? (wish these didn't actually matter)Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: Recommendation letters will be very strong, as I have worked intensively with all recommenders on research projects.

Research Experience: Honor's Research related to areas of interestAwards/Honors/Recognitions: Dean's Lists, Honor’s Program, Who’s Who, various Departmental awards and Honor SocietiesPertinent Activities or Jobs: 2 years of tutoring, 1 year Math ClubAny Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: A few grad classes. First Generation.Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: Lots of community service, martial arts, and spiritual stuff. I tailored my app for some schools but not for others (sent a general application).

Applying to Where: Ph.D unless specified as Master’s. They are more or less in order of difficulty/ranking.

Research Experience: Master's thesis: On a pre-published numerical method in Mathematical Finance. 6 month research; decent, nothing great, no significant new results.Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Scholarship for Master's studies from a well-known research school near the university.Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Took some classes on Linear Algebra and Big Data in the company I was working in. (I'm not sure if I should mention this. I have no official records except for my employment letter.)Any Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: I'm basically trying to shift to (pure) Math. I hope the lack of UG math classes and poor GRE Math scores will not hurt me too much. Also, my grad classes were more applied than pure.Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: Work experience of 1.5 years, implementing machine learning algorithms for big data.Recommendations: One strong, one okay, one weak.

I had applied to a LOT of universities, partly because of my unconventional background, and partly because I just started panicking midway and applied to wherever I could. I received my first admit only after April 15. Nevertheless, I'm happy that I cracked something. The group's interests matches my quite closely. The empty bank balance hurts though.

This website has been a boon to me in many ways. Hopefully this information will be helpful to someone. All the best! Cheers!

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Research Experience: A lot, two publications in decent journals, also worked for national lab for the entire 4 years of undergradAwards/Honors/Recognitions: Full ride to Oxbridge as American for entire PhD if I wanted to stay (I def didn't), NSF Fellowship in biophysics for that master's program, a lot of other smaller fellowships and international awardsPertinent Activities or Jobs: Accepted to PhD programs in the past (for biophysics) and passed qualifying exam alreadyAny Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: I've done a lot of grant writing so my SoP was basically a grant style research proposal.Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: I used a very specific approach to my letter of recommendations that I think made a huge difference in the quality of those letters, which I needed considering I didn't take the M_GRE and my quant score was low. http://www.howtogetintograduateschool.com/letters-of-recommendation/how-to-get-an-amazing-letter-of-recommendation/

GRE Revised General Test:Q: 170 (98%)V: 161 (89%)W: 4.0 (56%)GRE Subject Test in Mathematics:M: 740 (68%) (I am actually really happy with this. I knew it was going to be the weakest part of my application but I think this can keep me in the mix)

Research Experience: REU in computational biology (I switched from BME to math during my sophomore year) and an REU at a top 25 math program. I've had two research projects at my own university, one modeling malaria infection with stoichastic PDEs and my current one is in quantum chaos. Awards/Honors/Recognitions: I guess none really, obviously deans high honor roll. And then some conference academic recognition awards (see below).Pertinent Activities or Jobs: I've been a grader and a TA since my sophomore year for numerous math, phys, and systems bio courses. Any Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: Well I'm a female so that helps. I've been using two of my letter writers since my sophomore year and I believe they are doing a tremendous job. I've also taken a graduate class every semester since declaring math and maintained a 4.0.Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: Not sure how relevant it will be on some of my applications but I am also a two sport varsity athlete (soccer and track & field). I've also been heavily involved in leadership roles through greek life. I also hold a job in the department of relations and development so I'm friendly with some important people.

Research Experience:Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Dean's list for 4 quartersPertinent Activities or Jobs: Reader for one quarterAny Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: Asian female, currently taking a grad courseAny Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter:

Research Experience: Summer research in spectral theory, invited for international poster presentation. Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Several departmental honours. Awarded as the best student in pure mathematics.Pertinent Activities or Jobs: TA, student representative, volunteering project leader in secondary educationAny Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: Comprehensive and profound background of expertise in analysis (advanced courses including: measure and measure-theoretic probability, functional analysis, theory of distributions, analysis on manifolds, differential geometry); reading project in PDE analysis from prospective of distributional solutions; all strong references; regular attendance of regional analysis seminars.Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: Currently finishing a three year undergraduate degree. The limited number of applications this year is with respect to the possibility to choose to do a fourth year or Part III before advancing to Ph.D. study.

Applying to Where:StanfordBerkeleyMITPrincetonNYUUCLA

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Research Experience: two semesters of research for Master ThesisAwards/Honors/Recognitions: BSc with honors degreePertinent Activities or Jobs: four semesters of TAshipAny Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: (Such as connections, grad classes, famous recommenders, female or minority status etc...)Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter:

Applying to Where: (Color use here is welcome)PurdueArizonaArizona StateIndianaSouth CarolinaLouisiana StateGeorge WashingtonMissouriKansasKentuckyOklahoma State

Research Experience: REU junior yearAwards/Honors/Recognitions: Putnam scores around 20, a scholarship from math department one yearPertinent Activities or Jobs: Reader for math departmentAny Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: Took some grad coursesAny Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: One strong letter of rec[Also one recently accepted paper which will only appear to schools I haven't submitted the apps for yet.]

Research Experience: BA and MA theses, one submitted paperAwards/Honors/Recognitions: Excellence in math, Passed qualifying examPertinent Activities or Jobs: TA with very high reviewsAny Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: about 35 graduate classes, almost all with As.

Research Experience: A bit of knot theory, conference presentationAwards/Honors/Recognitions:Pertinent Activities or Jobs: TA for 3 termsAny Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: A couple of grad classes Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter:

Research Experience: I don't have any real research experience but I have done 2 reading courses with a very well-known prof in my research areas (lattice cryptography and analytic number theory). I gave weekly presentations to him and his graduate students each week. I've also given a talk in a graduate seminar for another very famous prof after working with him to learn a paper using ODEs and differential topology.Pertinent Activities or Jobs: I tutored at my university's student learning center for 2 years, specializing in linear algebra and discrete math. I also tutored privately for 2 semesters.Any Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: 2 famous recommenders, a few graduate classes with good grades, also female I guess?Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: My GPA is hugely dragged down by two poor grades in my sophomore year.

Research Experience: Master's Thesis in Discrete Math Bio (in preparation for publication), some undergrad work in biology, coauthor of a math-bio book chapterPertinent Activities or Jobs: Math tutor for years with university, also taught calc 1 and 2 for a year as a grad student

Pretty long list, roughly in order of interest, but some are for the Math Bio path, others for the Pure path. I'd rather have a chance to do pure, but my application strength tends to Math Bio and it's still loads of fun!

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Research Experience: 1 REU on combinatorics (have a letter of recommendation from them). Have worked with a professor at home institute for a year and have a paper in the works, also combinatorics related (have a letter of recommendation from him); oral presentation of this research at an undergraduate conference. Sole author of a paper published in an undergraduate journal; also gave oral presentation of this research at undergraduate conference.

Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Several awards/scholarships from my home institute math department and a few from a community college where I earned an AA degree.

Pertinent Activities or Jobs: nope.

Any Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: first generation student, member of the honors college at my home university.

Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: Went to community college out of high school and earned AA degree; graduated from the honors program there and 4.00 GPA. Applied for NSF GRFP.

Research Experience: Nserc summer 2015Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Putnam top 200, numerous scholarships, some physics competitionsPertinent Activities or Jobs: TA on CalculusAny Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: Three recommendations from professors in the math departmentAny Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: None

Research Experience: Four years of research in bioinformatics with a prof at my undergrad institution. Summer research projects in topology and probability at UBC during the last two summers. Co-author on three publications, one conference presentation.Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Several departmental awards for high grades in math courses. Summer research scholarshipsPertinent Activities or Jobs: TA for 4 tutorial sections over the past 2 years

Research Experience: Have attended some workshops around the country, have done some reading project on advanced topics with professors hereAwards/Honors/Recognitions: Nothing herePertinent Activities or Jobs: TA for Calculus101Any Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: None whatsoeverAny Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter:

Applying to Where:ReachCornell Rejected McGillUIUCOhio State- Accepted/ TA ShipOne of these should accept meUniv of Illinois at ChicagoMichigan State Accepted/TA ShipPurdueUniv of MinnesotaUniv of UtahEmory RejectedUniv of AlbertaUniv of British ColumbiaQueens

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Undergrad Institution: Southern State school near the bottom of Tier 1Major(s): MathematicsMinor(s): FinanceGPA: 3.98 (only B was in a high school Dual-Enrollment class; 4.0 in college with like ~200 hours)Type of Student: Domestic White Male

Research Experience: At the end of high school / freshman year I came up with something cool, simple, wrote my own paper, and won 3rd place at the Student Paper Contest at the regional MAA conference. It wasn't very advanced, and I haven't done anything since. Awards/Honors/Recognitions: various school scholarshipsPertinent Activities or Jobs: Nothing, reallyAny Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: I had a strong application for Statistics PhD programs, but decided last minute to go into math. I had multiple graduate stats classes, research experience, etc. My pure math is pretty weak on the resume, however. My school has virtually no pure math, and the classes we have seem like they're way too easy. No idea how this will be viewed by committees.

Research Experience: Over two years of independent research on variety of topics. Some significant results on Combinatorics/Algebra that relate to solving polynomials. 10 presentations at conferences/research fairs/departmental talks. No REUs. No publications.Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Many awards from the school. 1 presentation award at a MAA sectional meeting.Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Math tutor for 2 years.Any Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: Recommendation from a renowned mathematician.Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: ...

??????: I emailed the director about the application in March, and they did not respond for a month. I emailed the secretary again in April, and they told me they sent out offers to 28 applicants out of 100 and that the department did not return any decision on mine. I take that as no.

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Research Experience: two projects, in algebraic topology and algebraic geometry, some conference talks Awards/Honors/Recognitions: nothing notable Pertinent Activities or Jobs: 3+ years tutoring and TA above calculus level Any Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: graduate level course work from another school Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: None

Research Experience: Six months researching and writing a paper that will be published in a journal this monthPertinent Activities or Jobs: Four years of tutoring, two years as TA/Part-time lecturerAny Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: Probably not

Research Experience: 1.5 years research on fractal sets/geometric measure theory (not relevant to current interests)Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Only departmental awards (undergrad research, etc.) Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Grader for one semester, tutor for one semester, graduate teaching assistant for 2 years by the time I graduate.Any Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: BS and MS in 5 years. 18 graduate classes by graduation. Independent reading in algebraic geometry. Interested in Geometric Representation Theory (Geometric Langlands). Passed algebra qualifying exam. Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: A couple poor grades in lower-level mathematics and other courses. Almost entirely due to lack of interest. May be a red flag along with the Subject score

Applying to Where:

Far Reach:

ColumbiaCornellBrownUniversity of WisconsinUT-AustinUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of PennsylvaniaUIUCUniversity of Maryland - College Park

Research Experience: REU at my school along with research for credit on the same work (two semesters). Did research in algebraic geometry/number theory and submitted a paper too late for publication before applications went out.Awards/Honors/Recognitions: N/APertinent Activities or Jobs: Spent 3 semesters as a TA and one as a grader.Any Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: Took a couple of grad classes on algebraic geometry. Recommenders are pretty well known at some of the top schools.Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: N/A

Research Experience: One summer at home institution, One REUAwards/Honors/Recognitions: Nothing significantPertinent Activities or Jobs: Some grading and TA-ingAny Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: One grad class, pretty good REU experience, one well-known recommender Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: Nothing I can think of. I'm a bit sad about the GRE Subject score.

Research Experience: 1 REU (NSF funded) ending in an honors thesisAwards/Honors/Recognitions: Departmental and university honorsPertinent Activities or Jobs: I do some private tutoringAny Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: Took 1 graduate course and did well.

Research Experience: Spent one (1) year doing research to write my senior honors thesis.Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Cum Laude, Dean's Honors, Distinction in MajorPertinent Activities or Jobs: CLAS Instructor (Secondary TA)Any Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: I took a year off after undergrad to work full time and start to pay off my massive student debt. AS a consequence, my study time for the math gre was substantially low. Oh well, I have some strong LOR's..... I think.....Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: I have 3 strong letters of rec (hopefully). I know at least 1 of them has listed that I am the best student he has ever worked with.

Research Experience: no actual research experienceAny Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: rising GPAAny Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: very poor first year grades, mediocre second year grades, good third/fourth year grades, a lot of graduate courses (~12 as of now) in my research area and related areas, math in Moscow program, one reference letter from a fields medalist who doesn't know me that well (so not sure if it's a plus or not)

Applying to Where:UC Berkeley - pendingMIT - pendingPrinceton - rejLondon School of Geometry and Number Theory - pending/rej since no interviewMaster program of University of Bonn -rejU of UtahALGANT - offer with scholarship. Going. First year Duisburg Essen second year Paris SudHigher School of Economics, Moscow

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Research Experience: One REU. Presented our results at YMC at Ohio State, nothing published (yet)Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Quite a few departmental awards for academic achievement and teaching excellence, Phi Beta KappaPertinent Activities or Jobs: Lots of tutoring experience, TA for undergrad calculus courses, math club president Any Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: One letter writer is fairly well known; taken a few graduate courses; currently working on a senior thesis

Research Experience: One REU at a small California state school with a paper submitted, second REU at Cornell with a YMC presentationAwards/Honors/Recognitions: Departmental awardsPertinent Activities or Jobs: Math tutor, have experience tutoring upper division coursesAny Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: Math in Moscow for a semester, 3 independent studies of graduate material my senior year (I had no other options at my university)Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: One well known recommender from Cornell, glowing letter from my academic advisor, a letter from Moscow from a professor doesn't know me too well but should nonetheless be positive

Applying to Where: (Color use here is welcome)Trying to hedge my bets by applying to a lot of schools, since students from my school rarely breach top 50 schools

Despite all the rejections, I got what I wanted, which is admission to a respected university. Students from my university don't get into good graduate schools, and I am the first person in a very long time to get into the Ivy League. I don't think I'm the best mathematician at my school, only the student with the best resume. Hopefully my professors will be able to send more students to the top 20.

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Undergrad Institution: India; very new programme with only one graduating batch before me, but well-known faculty.Major(s): MathematicsMinor(s): -GPA: - 7.6/8; Math GPA: 7.81/8 [I don't think it would be accurate to just divide by 2?]Type of Student: US citizen but studied in India; Indian ethnicity.

Program Applying: Pure Math, with an interest in analysis and probability theory

Research Experience: One summer project (that began ~8 months earlier) with some research at the end. Nothing publishable. Ongoing final year research project.Awards/Honors/Recognitions: KVPY fellowship. (An Indian fellowship for students showing an aptitude for research)Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Nothing.Any Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: Two famous/somewhat well-known recommenders who know me well; one is my current advisor and the other my faculty advisor for 2.5 years. Plenty of graduate courses (at least in India) like Functional analysis, algebraic topology, measure theory, probability theory, stochastic processes & brownian motion, Galois Theory, commutative algebra, representation theory of finite groups...Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: N/A

Research Experience: Fairly prestigious applied math REU (RIPS), submitted a paper to a CS conference, got rejected but will resubmit (all too late for the applications), poster presentation; another summer doing physics research at my school and economics research at a think tank, although nothing really came of either; and one summer doing research at a university in India, but again nothing really came of it. Currently writing a physics thesis, but it's heavy on the math (foundations of quantum mechanics). Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Phi beta kappa, dean's list, some school-wide scholarships; highest honors at Budapest Semesters in Mathematics study abroad programPertinent Activities or Jobs: Been a math TA for the past 4 semesters, very active peer tutor (100+ tutoring sessions)Any Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: My thesis advisor is well known in his field, but that probably won't help too much for applied math programs. My REU advisor is also decently well known I think. Also took part in Budapest Semesters in Mathematics and did well. Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: I've taken quite a heavy load of classes for a liberal arts student (took some extra classes a few semesters) and one of my recommenders noted this.

Applying to Where: (All PhD in Applied Math unless otherwise noted)

I think essentially all these schools are reach schools. I figured if I didn't get into any I would do something else for a year and try again.

Research Experience: One summer of REU with a preprint, one summer of research at home school, senior thesis in progressAwards/Honors/Recognitions: A few minor onesPertinent Activities or Jobs: TA and tutor at undergrad institutionAny Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: 4 letters for those who accept the fourth one; attended JMM twice and another national conference once.Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: Budapest Semesters of Mathematics for one semester

Applied to:UC Berkeley - rejectedU of Minnesota - withdrewOhio State - admitted on Jan 12UPenn - admitted after attending the open houseGeorgia Tech - (Math PhD) admitted on Jan 29; petitioned to ACO after visiting and received acceptance laterU of Michigan - wailisted on March 17U of Washington - admitted on March 2Cornell - rejectedUCSD - admitted on March 3U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - admitted on Feb 6Rutgers - wailisted on Feb 23Penn State - withdrew

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Research Experience: Two NSERC USRAs (equivalent of REUs).Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Some scholarships.Pertinent Activities or Jobs: TA during my final year for a first year calculus course.Any Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: Around 7 grad classes, three strong recommendations from relatively well known professors.Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter:

Research Experience: Some individual expository research on which I presented a poster at two conferencesAwards/Honors/Recognitions: Mathematics department award, Dean's list, Phi Beta KappaPertinent Activities or Jobs: Teaching assistant, tutor, relevant summer internshipAny Miscellaneous Points that Might Help: I have taken a couple of grad classes, participated in the Carleton College summer mathematics program, helped to found an AWM chapter at my school, and have what I believe to be very solid letters of recommendation (though of course I haven't read them myself)

Applying to Where: (All pure math PhD unless otherwise noted)Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Rejected by email 2/25University of California, Berkeley - Accepted by email 1/30, awarded Chancellor's Fellowship 3/1 (Accepted offer!)University of Minnesota, Twin Cities - Applied (but forgot to send my transcript until after the deadline, which may have hurt me)Northwestern University - Rejected by email to check website 3/31University of Wisconsin, Madison - Accepted by email 2/12 (Declined)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor -Rejected by email 3/16University of California, San Diego - Rejected by email 3/4University of Maryland, College Park - Accepted by email 2/25, awarded fellowship (Declined)Carnegie Mellon University - PhD in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization - Withdrew Application 2/29 (they contacted me saying that they were impressed with my application but had concerns that my interests may not align well with their program, and I shared those concerns)University of Nebraska, Lincoln - Accepted by email 2/4 (Declined)

Fellowship:NSF Graduate Research Fellowship - Rejected by email 3/29

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